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    I was playing a multiplayer game and the people in chat got such a kick out of trying to teach me the terminology they were using.

    They were so proud when I called one of them the rizz master accurately.

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    Most young people don’t know what’s going on either with all the celebrities. Everything has just become so niche. You could have a popular streamer with 10M+ subscribers and interview 100 people on the street under 18 and nobody knows who they are.

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      A few years back I was a firearm salesman. The first time I sold a gun to someone born in the year 2000 I had an instant mid-life crisis.

      Now I have a side gig teaching night classes at the University, and the students graduating college now weren’t alive for 9/11.

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        Last year I was pouring myself a whiskey and my nephew asked if he could taste it.

        I told him, half joking, that it was adult stuff.

        My sister replied that he was 18 years old.

        I poured myself a double.

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        and the students graduating college now weren’t alive for 9/11.

        Aw man that sucks. Every kid should get to experience the wonderful 9/11. Truly a shame they can’t anymore.

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      I have to interact with a lot of them for my job, almost is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

      People basically act like children until they’re in their 20s, and kids born in '07 are currently still in high school.

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        I’m amazed at how computer-illiterate the new batches coming out of college are.

        Tech got too good and they never had to troubleshoot issues, and most of the tech they’ve used to this point has been apps on phones and tablets.

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    And I‘m here, only ever knowing Rowan Atkinson as a celebrity, and maybe George Clooney.

    And I refuse to accept the Botox buttox as celebrities.

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      I like celebs who age gracefully. I had a lifelong crush on Courtney Cox before she had that horrific facelift. Just age, and maintain your dignity.

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        It’s pretty wild how much they’ll deface themselves to attempt to hold onto their youth, esp when they’ll look much better if they avoided it in the first place. Anyone considering doing any of that shit just needs to compare old Madonna to her recent self. After seeing that, if that’s really what you want, go for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        Oh fuck off. Actors who are famous for their faces have no good path forward. They will be criticized regardless, either for “letting themselves go” or “getting work done.”

        “Age gracefully” means “get work done that I can’t clock, because it hurts my feelings to acknowledge that faces change in aesthetically displeasing ways as people age.”

        I’m really sick of this pseudo-feminist policing of aging women’s faces.

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          Right. I’ve never seen an old person without immediately recoiling in horror, because I was raised in an under-30 only creche on a remote island without internet.

          Your strawman has some bearing in hollywood circles where image is everything, but as several aging celebrities have shown us – you can literally disappear from the public whenever you want.

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            We are talking about actors, specifically Courtney Cox. Your weird island idea is the straw man in this conversation.

            The idea that she should age in a way that continues your “crush” on her or else “disappear from the public” is continuing the policing of women’s bodies that I am referring to.

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              I’m not claiming agency over her like a fawning stalker… I expressed a small crush on a public figure and lamented that she had to turn to drastic surgery to remain in the limelight, when she could have just disappeared from the public consciousness altogether.

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    the enboomerification of genx is almost complete

    it would have happened sooner but millennials needed to complain about it first

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      Nah, this is millennial energy right here. “Fuck social media, why doesn’t everyone have a geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon KIDS NEED TO STOP HAVING A DIFFERENT INTERNET EXPERIENCE THAN I GREW UP WITH!”

      Gen-x, as is their nature, simultaneously doesn’t care and complains endlessly about everything equally, even the stuff they like, especially the stuff they like.

      To put it in a perspective that this audience will understand; boomers are superintendent Chalmers. Millenials are Principal Skinner. Gen-x is Comic Book Guy.

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        yeah but the internet objectively sucks ass now and the webrings dont seem that bad ngl. also the ‘geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon’ still exists lmfao (neocities etc)

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          The internet objectively sucked back then too. But it seemed cool, because it was new and exciting and all the millennials that are nostalgic for it were young teens at the time.

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        Not a millennial but I will always argue that the modern internet is inherently worse for people than the internet even of 15 years ago.

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        Fuck social media, why doesn’t everyone have a geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon KIDS NEED TO STOP HAVING A DIFFERENT INTERNET EXPERIENCE THAN I GREW UP WITH!”

        This, but unironicly!

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          I want to live in a world where people blame geocities and angelfire instead of alphabet and meta for destroying the internet and spreading misinformation

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      These aren’t radically new forms of celebrity so much as new methods of circulating a fad. Thirty years ago we had Pewdiepie and Mr. Beast, they were just Talk Radio shock jocks and daytime TV game show hosts. The names and faces change, but the gimmicks are all the same.

      “Oh, you don’t know who Octomom is? Oh, you haven’t heard about the Macarena? You don’t know all the call-lines to Rocky Horror Picture Show? I guess you’re not cool.” shrug These things come and go. You can follow them or not. But pretending the height of socialization is knowing the current crop of Mouseketeers-turned-pop-idols isn’t going to make you less of a Boomer than your great-grandparents.

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    >tfw that kid born in 2007 is almost old enough to vote

    when i first read this i imagined like a ten year old

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    somewhere some zoomer is living in the alternate future of 2017 and is deep in the metaverse, gooning to genAI NFTs in full VR

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      I don’t think so? Though I could also be behind on the slang. I’m 24 which if I were 15 I’d consider to be ancient

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        Fuck dude i remember being 24 and i was out drinking with friends. I met a guy who looked about my age and a good bit shorter than me. At some point he said he’s 32, and i could not believe that i met that man from the begone area, that looked so young. In fact i was so amused by that fact that i paraded him around and showed him off to my friends. “Hey, guess his age.” WRONG, he’s 3 2 years old, van you believe that? He’s just like us.

        I think about that guy about once a week and remember when i was 32… 7 years ago.

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          😭 years fly by eh? The past 4 already feel like a month for me, could be the pandemic still fucking with my brain, could just be the new normal

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            And it really ramps up the older you get. I always thought i’ll never be out of touch, because i grew up with the internet and i play video games with often younger people i assume. But then i worked with 3 electricians for example. They were super far behind because they sat on their phones a lot (not just, but it didn’t help.) i didn’t want to be that guy so i just let them be. It was quite surreal to me to see a bunch of guys playing fortnite on their break. The problem was that i look really young, so they often think i’m one of them. So i pulled one of them aside and told them that they are like 2 weeks behind and need to be finished in a week and they really need to get their shit together. He dabbed at me, said okay and went to work. I thought this is some “i think you should leave” skit.

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    Any of you have an address where I can get my Onion belt clip and a rocking chair. There’s some kids I need to yell off my lawn.